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Staff Profile: Dimitar Bechev

Recent Commentary

• Serbia, Kosovo and the benefits of normalisation
  24 Apr 13
• Bulgaria’s anger, the real source
  15 Mar 13
• Bringing Turkey back to the EU debate
  21 Dec 12
• Putin’s visit rekindles the Russia-Turkey affair
  05 Dec 12
• The view from the capitals: the EU budget summit
  21 Nov 12

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Recent Blogs

• US - Turkey relations: a bitter honeymoon
  16 May 13
• Bulgaria’s elections: change we disbelieve in
  15 May 13
• The clock is ticking on Cyprus
  22 Mar 13
• A Kurdish spring
  21 Mar 13
• Greece: back in the foreign policy game?
  05 Mar 13

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recent press

• Al Jazeera
  14 May 13
• Open Democracy
  14 Mar 13
• The Financial Times
  13 Mar 13
• Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
  13 Mar 13

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Dimitar Bechev is a Senior Policy Fellow and Head of ECFR's office in Sofia. He is also affiliated with South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), St Antony’s College, Oxford. In 2006-2010, Dimitar was a Research Fellow at Oxford's European Studies Centre and held a lectureship in International Relations at Worcester College, Oxford and a visiting professorship at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. He is a Region Head for Central and Eastern Europe at Oxford Analytica, a leading consultancy on current political and economic affairs. 

Dimitar has published widely on the EU's enlargement and neighbourhood policies as well as the politics and modern history of the Balkans. He is the author of The Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia (2009), Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Conflict and Memory in a Transnational World (2010, co-edited with ECFR Council Member Kalypso Nicolaidis) and Constructing South East Europe: the Politics of Balkan Regional Cooperation (2011) as well as articles in leading periodicals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies and East European Politics and Societies. He holds a D.Phil. (2005) in International Relations from the University of Oxford as well as graduate degrees in International Relations and Law from Sofia University. Dimitar holds a D.Phil. (2005) in International Relations from the University of Oxford as well as graduate degrees in International Relations and Law from Sofia University.

Areas of expertise: EU enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, the politics of wider South East Europe (post-communist Balkans, Greece, Turkey), EU-Russia relations, Euro-Mediterranean relations

Languages: Bulgarian, English, Russian, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Macedonian, Modern Greek; some French, Spanish and Italian; basic Turkish and German

Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), +359 242 4052

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